I got this earlier today and I must say, I'm *really* impressed with it. Finally, one of the major IM companies(?) has produced a mac client that is actually good and usable. When the MSN support comes in I'll be ditching the frankly grotesque Adium in favour of this.

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It's better than what we had before, still crippled compared to the Windows version... O_o;;

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I agree here. This is a very nice release. The video quality is better than the previous YM, but the text did have trouble keeping up with me while my cam and my friend's cam was running. Other than that, good stuff.
FINALLY.

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I have to admit: I'm flabbergasted. This release is surprisingly... surprising. It's VERY OS X; no longer that clunky Carbon legacy UI and feel. Very zippy, and the webcam functionality finally works really well. File xfers are 100% drag and drop too.

Awesome work Yahoo. Keep up the Mac OS X love!

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i've noticed that it doesn't replace the old yahoo app.

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Still no support for message logging or Yahoo Chat though, near as I can tell. I would love to see that happen.

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This is definitely a step in the better direction, I have started using the yahoo messenger more and more as I have found a few old friends on the 360, and webcams are like $30 now, so we've been having a blast camming with each other, I hope more and more people adapt it, the cam thing is cool and easy to use.

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Does anyone know whether or not this new version supports USB webcams?

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No tabbed chats :(

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Looks almost exactly like adium and one of the themes to me.

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Does it have voice chat now?

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It's exactly the same as the old one except now we got a better interface and, ZOMG!, avatars! WOOHOO!

I want chatrooms. I could care less about avatars and the interface, just give me the damn chatrooms.

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For a first beta, this beats some (if not all) final releases from companies I could mention. Feeling the love Yahoo!

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does it support cross platform webcam already in this beta version?

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Grotesque adium? Are you for real?

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I'm very relieved to see this. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I'm just thrilled that Yahoo actually has a Mac development team. After all, the 2.5.3 version was from what, 2003? I'll just be happy if File Transfer works again with PC users--anything else is just icing on the cake for this release.

The lack of Mac support from AIM, Google, and Yahoo (which Google has definitely remedied with Google Earth and others, and now Yahoo has) for their native apps was the biggest strike against the Mac when I recommended it to switchers. Switchers don't care about Adium or other 3rd party tools; they want the official client. Plus, the 3rd party tools did not support file transfer or video chat with YIM. The 2.5.3 YIM still did silent video, but file transfer was broken. This release is a great step forward. Just knowing they have Mac developers and finally acknowledged that they need to continue to release Mac versions of their tools is great.

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Does this version support webcam video *and audio*? In the past, that was one of the shortcomings of the Mac version - I could do "video chats" with other Y!M users, but only video, no audio.

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it doesn't support audio yet...supposedly that's coming in a future beta.

does anyone know how many frames per second is the video (approximately)? Is it real time, or still just one or two frames per second?

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Does it support "right click" finally? Yahoo Messenger on Mac OS X has done nothing but infuriate me compared to the Windows version.

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Use of this new beta keeps signing me out of my Yahoo Mail and Finance pages in Safari. I've had to log in over a dozen times today....

That said, I'm definitely glad to see a new version of Messenger, *finally*!

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